SNP campaigners park illegally while promising bad parking crackdown

THE SNP have been accused of “hypocrisy” and “double standards” after pictures of their campaign vans parked illegally emerged online.

The pictures were shared on Scotland’s Worst Drivers Facebook page and show various vehicles emblazoned with the SNP logo mounted on the kerb and parked on double yellow lines.

The images are all the more embarrassing as the SNP manifesto includes a promise to crack down on bad parking.

The manifesto reads: “We will bring forward a Transport Bill to improve bus services, enhance and improve the role of the Scottish Road Works Commissioner and wider road works regulation and to enable and enforce responsible parking.

The first image from April 26, shows the SNP MSP for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, Christina McKelvie sitting in her campaign van whilst it’s mounted on a pavement.

SNP MSP Christina McKelvie in her campaign van, mounted on a pavement.

The picture, taken in Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, shows a beaming Ms McKelvie leaning out from the passenger side of the vehicle whilst a team of campaigners pose next to it.

Another image taken on April 19 shows a white van adorned with a yellow SNP logo parked up on a pavement in Gilmerton Road in Edinburgh facing the wrong way down the road.

A similar photo taken a week earlier shows an SNP campaign van which has been left whilst bumped up onto the pavement and next to a bus stop.

In the final picture, a pick-up truck with an SNP billboard mounted on the back is parked illegally over double yellow lines.

A pick-up truck with an SNP billboard mounted on the back is parked over double yellow lines.